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People realize, but writing good technical prose is hard and a separate skill.
by ch4s3 1mo ago
People realize, but writing good technical prose is hard and a separate skill.
- dawnerd 1mo agoThere's good technical prose on the site? It's all just fluff marketing that adds nothing.
- demibabs 1mo agoI don’t think it’s that hard; it just takes effort. And the effort is well worth it.
- Tallain 1mo agoIt's not that hard if you put in the effort and practice. But if you don't want to and still want to use an LLM, there are low-bar choices you can make (using a technical writing skill, using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, choosing your audience, proofreading at the end with human eyes to make sure it makes sense and doesn't repeat itself uselessly). I think it shows either a) low respect or consideration for your audience or yourself, or b) laziness. Trust yourself to write even if it's bad. At least it's human.
- km144 1mo agoI assure you it won't be as bad as this (answer to FAQ: "Will OpenLogi support Logitech Flow?") > It's on the roadmap, at the far end: a cross-computer pointer and clipboard bridge is a very large feature. The half that lives in the protocol already ships. OpenLogi drives Easy-Switch host switching over HID++ (0x1814/0x1815), and paired mice follow the keyboard when it switches hosts. If the rest lands, it will be opt-in and local-network only. A great example of why Claude's writing is terrible is the sentence "The half that lives in the protocol already ships". I cannot imagine any human writing this.
- earth-tattoo 1mo agoWhat is the point of spending so much effort if some people are still going to call it LLM slop?
- demibabs 1mo agoHuh? Bad human writers don’t write like LLMs, at all.
- andsoitis 1mo ago> writing good technical prose is hard and a separate skill. Hard things are hard. They’re not easy. But they’re worth it.
- layer8 1mo agoMost worthwhile things are hard without a bit of practice.